Third World, U.s. Using Each Other

China, India and other Third World countries seek agreements and ventures with American businesses with the goal of learning our trade secrets and patents, copying them and moving forward without us.

Having extracted all the value out of our corporations, they discard them. At this point, our corporations are no longer viable business concerns, since we can't compete with the former partners. This cycle is repeated again and again.

Our corporate leaders are not ignorant of this: As long as they guarantee their own personal retirement, they don't care about the shareholders or American workers. Who is looking after American interests?

Third World countries treating us this way find their moral justification (if they ever need one) in the fact that they have been poor for so long as we exhibited a mostly rich lifestyle. They will not blame themselves for being poor, but the "American imperialists" who "exploit" them. This is not surprising.